1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • 1st Scene TV PILOT Script Reading: NECROPOLIS, by Caledonia Hanson

    Necropolis: A violent and seedy hell on earth, the part of the city everyone warns you about. When 18-year-old Eddie Soreno ventures into this insidious place to uncover the truth of his father's past, only his sister, Maria, holds hope that he will return alive. Against the clock, Maria goes in ...

  • TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: JOE HOLLYWOOD, by Jane Henning

    During the heyday of the 1920s, JOE KENNEDY, the patriarch of the Kennedy family, bullied for a lifetime in anti-Irish Boston sets his sights on Hollywood and the cash to support a run for the US Presidency, but Hollywood's glitz and glamour hide a dark underbelly - it doesn't like outsiders. Ins...

  • SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: INVERSION, by Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Bowden: Sean Ballantyne
    Reeves: Shawn Devlin
    Fugitive: Andy Camp
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  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: SWINE HEART, by Theresa Anne Carey , Bruce Stephen Brochtrup

    In this modern-day Frankenstein story, a brilliant surgeon risks everything to save the man she loves by performing an illegal heart transplant using a pig heart; but when her lover begins experiencing unfamiliar slaughterhouse memories and violent personality changes, she fears she's created a m...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Noble Wild, by Brando Benetton

    Inspired by his wife's dying wish for him to travel, an uptight illustrator fearfully sets out to explore Europe on foot with his wife’s dog Noble by his side.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Helen: Hannah Ehman
    Arthur: Shawn Devlin
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  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: RETURN TO SENDER, by Tammy Klembith, George Klembith

    When a young couple starts receiving mysterious boxes from an unknown sender, their lives spiral into a nightmare as they struggle to discover who or what is behind the packages.

    (Supernatural Horror)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Lexy: Hannah Ehman
    Wyatt: Shawn Devlin
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  • DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: This Is The Last Time, by Jeff Bretl

    A young, sexually abused gay man moves to NYC desperately hoping to find love.

    Gay man JAY BODEN, 23, moves to New York City and meets PAUL, 35, a widowed, newly out doctor and father of HALLEY, 7. Together they struggle to create a loving, supportive family.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Mariana's Web, by Taylor Salotti

    Recently released from prison, Dani enters a room that she may never escape.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Rose/Dani: Hannah Ehman
    Fairy/Mom: Kyana Teresa
    Ghost/Sean: Shawn Devlin
    Analiese: Allison Kampf
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  • FAN FICTION Festival 1st Scene Reading: Dare To Be Stupid: A "Weird Al" Fan Film, by Michael Mantsourani

    After a case gone wrong, Detective Al Yankovic hangs up his badge for good and becomes a novelty musician. Four years later, he is dragged back into the world he left behind when his half-hamster former partner, Harvey, attempts to solve a murder that has a...purple...connection to the case that ...

  • CRIME Festival 1st Scene Reading: THE KISS-OFF, by Gio Forlenza

    A disenchanted Brooklyn bagman chooses to help the feisty woman who ripped him off and defy the "family" that adopted him as an orphan.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Monica: Hannah Ehman
    Gus: Shawn Devlin
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  • SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: Arcturus Rising, by Robert Cox

    A large spaceship glides over Peran, a moon circling a planet in the Arcturus System. Staying for a few moments, it drills a hole into the crust, deposits a box and silently leaves. Over 12,000 years later, Mining Colony Six occupies the same general area. The colony consists of six miners, a doc...

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: There Are No Black People In Space, by Ant Thompson

    Facing a dying Earth, an unlikely crew of inmates is forced to build a habitable colony on Mars.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Teejay/Sway/Omari: Sean Ballantyne
    Kojey/Officer Vega/Miles: Shawn Devlin
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  • ACTION Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Sequestered, by Jake Parrish

    In New America, run by AI, a group of young people escape the camp and come to realise the world they’ve known is not as it seems.

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: The Past Is A Temple, by Joe Favalaro

    A struggling writer travels to London to finish his perpetually delayed novel, where he begins a fraught search into reincarnation and past lives that will threaten his brittle sobriety and fragile relationship.

  • 1st Scene Reading: TV PILOT Fairyland Ain't What It Used To BE

    Lured into what they think is a virtual reality game, girl-boy twins find themselves in a fantasy dimension, fighting for their lives to save an enchanted realm fallen into shadow.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Casey (M-12): Shawn Devlin
    Claire (F-12): Hannah Ehman
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  • BLACK & WHITE Festival 1st Scene Reading: WE ARE ALL DEAD, by Arthur Tiersky

    When a robbery goes wrong and the getaway driver is killed, the gang's two leaders become romantic rivals when the driver's widow shows up to collect her share.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    McBride/Voice: Geoff Mays
    Johnny: Allan Michael Brunet

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading: Nature > Nuture, by Daniel Roche

    After the north and south magnetic poles flip overnight, people’s random inner animals run wild. In this new world, the power dynamic between men and women, rich and poor, parent and child go extinct. All that matters is where you fall on the food chain. Are you predator or prey?

    CAST LIST:

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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING, by Eva Bennett

    Set in a small town nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, recovering heroin addict Mason Summers moves back into his parents home after leaving rehab. The day after he arrives, he comes home to find the daughter he secretly gave up for adoption 18 years prior sitting on the couch....

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: SCHOOL STORY, by Jit Fong Oon

    Teen rebel Kai joins the school production of Romeo and Juliet in order to cozy up to his romantic target Ana, but he gets embroiled in her attempt to launch a clandestine gay-themed version of the play despite opposition from the conservative school authorities.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth ...

  • CRIME Festival TV Series 1st Scene Reading: CHICAGO UNDERGROUND, by T.J. Barkwill

    To pay off his gambling debts to the mob, a desperate unemployed black man and single father to a five-year-old is forced to kill a man—but having discovered a talent for murder he finds himself caught up in the twists and turns of a gang war which lead to his son being placed in harm’s way.

    CAS...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: STRAYS, by Robert Wooldridge

    A lonely surveillance officer at a grocery store helps a street kid get a job, but their budding friendship soon turns into a brewing obsession.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Young Woman: Kyana Teresa
    Pete: Shawn Devlin

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: MISERABLE PEOPLE, by Jeff Hindenach

    A young man suffers from the uncanny ability to absorb the worst memories of people he comes into physical contact with, which forces him into a lonely life of seclusion. But when he starts seeing happy memories for the first time in his life, he embarks on a mission to find the woman from the fl...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival 1st Scene Reading: THE DEPTHS BELOW, by Andrew Dean Pearson

    In the not too distant future, a team of oceanic explorers equipped with technologically advanced diving suits become the target of a highly adaptive creature that teaches them a valuable lesson: Space was never the final frontier.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Crew Member: Elizabeth Rose Morr...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: THE DISTANCE, by Pann MuruJaiyan

    Jackie Beeman, a young under privileged African American girl eyes for the boxing championship. The only obstacle is not the opponent but a Pastor who hates her guts. Coincidentally, Jackie soon gets a title shot, but at the same time she meets her college crush back in town. Whether she has the ...